Scholastics, following Aristotle, thought that objects were composed of matter and form. I.e., a computer is a bunch of metal and plastic and silicon and stuff (the matter), arranged in a ...

No single theological change even approaches the significance of the Jewish/Christian adaptation of the Greek philosophical notions of matter and form into body and soul. Thank you, Aristotle.

in the sense that he required nothing more than ordinary matter and its properties to explain life. He understands that for Aristotle the soul was its form (eidos, which can also mean species), th ...

Aristotle does not escape this universal condition. He is thrown into a world where the problem of being, expressed through a ...

In the Politics, Aristotle develops a notorious doctrine ... humans are doing to the AI and will resent the matter. Such AI will have a form of soul or spirit. Even if it doesn’t, the very ...